Ex OC undersheriff files lawsuit

SANTA ANA, Calif. 
The former undersheriff of the Orange County Sheriff's Department who was asked to resign last year in the wake of a jail beating investigation has filed a wrongful termination and sexual discrimination lawsuit, alleging she was targeted because she is gay and was unfairly accused of lying.

Jo Ann Galisky resigned in February 2008 after she was accused of lying to a grand jury that was looking into the 2006 jail beating death of inmate John Chamberlain.

Her lawsuit, filed May 11 in Orange County Superior Court, discounts the investigation which led to a critical report of the Sheriff's Department's handling of the death.

Galisky stated she had done nothing wrong and claims she was discriminated against by her supervisors because she was gay.